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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: injurious to the person who does not ascribe any particular importance to
it. Neither are works injurious provided a person does not attach any
saving value to them. The Apostle does not say that works are
objectionable, but to build one's hopes for righteousness on works is
disastrous, for that makes Christ good for nothing.
Let us bear this in mind when the devil accuses our conscience. When that
dragon accuses us of having done no good at all, but only evil, say to him:
"You trouble me with the remembrance of my past sins; you remind me
that I have done no good. But this does not bother me, because if I were to
trust in my own good deeds, or despair because I have done no good deeds,
Christ would profit me neither way. I am not going to make him
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